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| ISIL artifact of Iraq invasion: David Miliband | |
| 2014-08-11 | |
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Lion of Islam group ISIL in the country, Britannia's former foreign secretary David Miliband admits. Expressing regret over the UK's involvement in the war, Miliband told the Observer on Saturday that the outcome of the Iraq war after almost a decade "induces a high degree of humility." "It's clearly the case that the invasion of Iraq, or more importantly what happened afterwards, is a significant factor in understanding the current situation in the country," he said. Asked whether the conflict had led him to regret voting in support of the Iraq war, Miliband said he regrets it because he made the decision "on the basis of upholding the norms of respect to weapons of mass destruction, and there were none." The former minister urged British authorities to accept the responsibility for the Iraq war, saying that the consequences of the war have left the public in Britannia and the US unwilling to support any military intervention in other parts of the world. Miliband's remarks, however, contrast with those offered by Britannia's former prime minister Tony Blair, who dismissed as "bizarre" the view that the war had led to the development of terrorist groups such as the ISIL in the country. UK forces participated in the US-led invasion of Iraq in a blatant violation of international law in 2003 under the pretext that the regime of Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were ever discovered in Iraq. The crisis in Iraq escalated after the ISIL Takfiri forces of Evil took control of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in a lightning advance on June 10, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 No worries, ISIL is the JV according to our overmatched amatuer CIC. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-08-11 16:07 |
| #4 Ultimately, ISIL is an artifact of Cain killing Abel. The important question, as always, is what to we do with the time & resources we have left? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-11 13:43 |
| #3 The MSM trying to run cover for the empty suit by blaming the current situation on Bush. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-08-11 12:39 |
| #2 The left in the U.S. keeps insisting that Iraq was an illegal war no matter that U.N. resolutions justified such an action. The U.S. Congress voted in favor of going into Iraq. Intelligence is probably never as certain as one would like it to be. The intelligence services of the West believed that Iraq had WMDs. Saddam has used chemical weapons against the Kurds. Tyrants in the M.E. seemed to prefer these WMDs. Syria has used these WMDs more recently. It is time to put these old shibboleths of the left away and move on. We still need to keep an eye on terrorist and proxy groups who would use these WMDs and respond appropriately. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-11 10:58 |
| #1 Asked whether the conflict had led him to regret voting in support of the Iraq war, Miliband said he regrets it because he made the decision "on the basis of upholding the norms of respect to weapons of mass destruction, and there were none." Notice the use of the term "norms of respect" as opposed to dozens of UN Resolutions against Saddam? Resolutions that were hollow threats until the U.S. led coalition moved against a tyrant. Dr. David Kelly might take exception to that last sentence, that is, if he had not been murdered. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-11 03:33 |